SS Rajamouli’s RRR stole the limelight last year as it shattered all the records at the box office. The cherry on the cake was when its song Naatu Naatu featuring Ram Charan and Jr NTR won the Gloden Globes Award for Best Original Song. The song also made it to the nominations for the Oscars last month. The whole world grooved to the song and now Pakistani actor Hania Aamir’s dancing to Naatu Naatu is winning hearts on the internet.

In the viral video, Aamir could be seen doing the hook step of the popular song at a wedding function while wearing a sharara ensemble and a pair of white sneakers. The actor did an amazing job performing the energetic song at the wedding. The video was shared by an Instagram handle The Wedding Bridge and has garnered more than 50K views on the platform.

Watch the viral video here:

Soon after the video went viral, users, within no time, bombarded the comment section and praised the actor.

The video came amid the ongoing Javed Akhtar controversy on social media.

The veteran Indian artist recently made a visit to Lahore and was a keynote speaker at Faiz Festival organised to celebrate the renowned Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

During the event, Akhtar slammed Pakistan over the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and said the perpetrators of the attack are still roaming freely in Pakistan despite several complaints by India.

The lyricist also said Pakistan never organised any event for Lata Mangeshkar despite India organising big events for Pakistani artists like Mehdi Hasan and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Pakistani singer Ali Zafar was also a part of the event and was spotted singing along with Akhtar. The singer later thanked the lyricist on social media which triggered massive trolls from his Pakistani fan.

Ali Zafar later put out a clarification note on his Instagram handle and said he is proud to be a Pakistani and would not appreciate any statement against his country or people, especially at an event which was meant to bring hearts closer than further.

He further slammed Akhtar and called his remarks uncalled for which can deeply hurt the sentiments of so many people.

With the advent of OTT platforms in India, the Indian audience bid adieu to the ‘saas-bahu drama’ on television. Myriad shows, dedicated to the OTT audience, have been released for the past few years, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

The audience got the substance and relatability they needed in the content they consumed and were freed from stereotypical and regressive content served on Hindi channels.

Production houses released web shows and films on OTT platforms every week which is overwhelming for the audience. There are shows that created a hullabaloo among fans with their first part and on the flip side, there are shows that fizzled out after their first episode. And there are also shows with out-of-the-box marketing on social media but didn’t turn out to be worth the hype.

With the N-number of OTT platforms around, it was natural that there would be N-number of shows. If you are a sucker for Indian web shows, you might have friends who can’t stop talking about a particular show and made you binge-watch it but you were disappointed! This article is for you poor souls who end up choosing overrated shows going by social media trends.

5 overrated Indian shows to flee from

Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives

Nepotism has many negative sides but Karan Johar took the cliche and turned it upside down. He featured his four best buddies Seema Kiran Sajdeh, Neelam Kothari, Bhavana Pandey, and Maheep Kapoor and doled out a 21st-century favour to them by helping them retain their long-lost fame or the fame their husbands never enjoyed.

Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives is like a drunk mistake everyone regrets the next morning. And they had the audacity to come up with a second season? Why? Why was this series even made? Netflix! Why so tasteless?

Modern Love Mumbai

Bankrolled by Pritish Nandy, this Amazon Prime Video series brings you six stories of human connection. The six-story series has been directed by Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Alankrita Shrivastava, Vishal Bhardwaj, Nupur Asthana, and Dhruv Sehgal.

Inspired by Modern Love by John Carney, Modern Love Mumbai has beautiful stories but what’s new. Similar themes and content have been seen in Lust Stories and Made in Heaven and films like Kapoor And Sons and Tamasha. Six stories dealing with people’s complexities and finding love and connection are monotonous and can be seen in every other OTT series. Yawn!

Four More Shots Please!

Starring Bani J, Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, and Maanvi Gagroo in the lead, Four More Shots Please is an utter waste of time. It’s a weak-ass watered-down version of Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex And The City. The acting, plot, and dialogues seem to be written by the scriptwriter under extreme duress, such as at gunpoint. And the drama in the show will remind you of the much-criticised portrayal of feminism in Rhea Kapoor’s film Veerey Di Wedding.

Little Things

Starring Mithila Palkar and Dhruv Sehgal, Little Things has very little substance. Same old mundane urban relationship and cohabitation scuffle. The show is popular among the young, but again the story is as stale as a week-old loaf of bread. Palkar has already appeared in similar content produced by Filter Copy and TVF. Moreover, the makers came up with sequels which kind of pulverised the little substance the show had into nothing.

Aarya

The crime-thriller might have changed Sushmit Sen’s life for good but the show is just another casual watch on Hotstar. With shows like Criminal Justice, Made In Heaven, The Great Indian Murder, et al, Aarya is like a showpiece in your living room, gathering dust and no one caring to clean it. The only watchable thing about Aarya is Sen who returned to the screen after years of hiatus.

Swara Bhasker, who recently registered her marriage with Samajwadi Party leader Fahad Ahmad, slammed filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri for name-calling and accusing Muslim citizens on public platforms.

It all started with a tiff between The Kashmir Files director and journalist Mohammed Zubair on Twitter. Zubair recently fact-checked the filmmaker’s claim about winning the Dadasaheb Phalke award. Agnihotri won an award at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Awards and shared the news on social media. Journalist Zubair claimed that The Kashmir Files had not won the real Dadasaheb Phalke award but another one which sounds like it.

Following this, the filmmaker slammed Zubair in a tweet and said fact-checking is the biggest extortion mafia today which is controlled by a crazy, lunatic terror organisation.

Zubair then shared screenshots of the award and confusion to which Agnihotri replied that he doesn’t hate fact-checkers but when puncture repairers pretend to be fact-checkers. He further calls the journalist a ‘jehadi pimp’ of India’s enemies.

The journalist further continued bashing the filmmaker and said words like jihadi and puncture wala against Muslims were earlier used by faceless Right Wing trolls.

Now, Swara Bhasker slammed Vivek Agnihotri for name-calling Muslims publically. In a tweet, she wrote Vivek Agnihotri name-calling, swearing at, and accusing Muslim citizens on public platforms simply because they are Muslim is a glaring example of how vile, poisoned, bigoted, and majoritarian the public discourse has become in New India.

Have a look at the tweet here:

Swara Bhasker recently got married to Samajwadi Party leader Fahad Ahmad under the Special Marriage Act.